^Without looking it up, I'd bet few if any of Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Charlotte, Salt Lake City, or Nashville are governed by GOP mayors/majority city councils.

 

EDIT: but I more or less agree with the overall point.

^^^^This is a pointless argument...

 

Dems can point to Boston, San Fran, LA, Seattle, NYC.

 

GOP can point to Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Charlotte, Salt Lake City, Nashville

 

If you believe one party's politics are the sole cause of the problem, you're the problem.

 

I do think a lack of balance has hurt Cleveland. 

50+ municipalities in Cuyahoga is too much. I would love to see some mergers.

 

It has to start with Cleveland absorbing a few of the inner-ring though. I don't think Cuyahoga County would benefit from two cities with 150,000+. Imagine a Parma, Parma Heights, Seven Hills, Brooklyn consolidation - as they have already begun to share some dispatch services. That would be a city of approximately 135,000.

 

They also share a municipal court system, along with North Royalton and Brooklyn Heights.  This arrangement is common throughout the area.  Rocky River handles Westlake, Fairview Park and North Olmsted.  Avon and Sheffield go to Avon Lake.  Due to the overwhelming need, city mergers have already been happening in all but name. 

^^^^This is a pointless argument...

 

Dems can point to Boston, San Fran, LA, Seattle, NYC.

 

GOP can point to Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Charlotte, Salt Lake City, Nashville

 

If you believe one party's politics are the sole cause of the problem, you're the problem.

 

I do think a lack of balance has hurt Cleveland. 

 

There's no doubt that 1 party rule is bad.  It just doesn't really matter which party it is.

50+ municipalities in Cuyahoga is too much. I would love to see some mergers.

 

It has to start with Cleveland absorbing a few of the inner-ring though. I don't think Cuyahoga County would benefit from two cities with 150,000+. Imagine a Parma, Parma Heights, Seven Hills, Brooklyn consolidation - as they have already begun to share some dispatch services. That would be a city of approximately 135,000.

 

If we could see Cleveland pick up some cities like EC or Brooklyn, that would put the population back over 400,000 and help with funding - though I do realize it is slightly more complicated than that.

 

I agree YABO. Mergers have to make sense first. Considering Parma-Parma Heights and Seven Hills share Parma City Schools, it makes more sense for them to merge than, say, Parma-North Royalton.

 

I realize the logistics of any merger isn't easy but from a geographical standpoint, EC, Brooklyn, Linndale, Cuyahoga/Newbergh Hts., and dare I say Lakewood and Bratenahl *should* be the first candidates of a Cleveland merger.

^^^^This is a pointless argument...

 

Dems can point to Boston, San Fran, LA, Seattle, NYC.

 

GOP can point to Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Charlotte, Salt Lake City, Nashville

 

If you believe one party's politics are the sole cause of the problem, you're the problem.

 

I do think a lack of balance has hurt Cleveland. 

 

There's no doubt that 1 party rule is bad.  It just doesn't really matter which party it is.

 

Indeed

^^^^This is a pointless argument...

 

Dems can point to Boston, San Fran, LA, Seattle, NYC.

 

GOP can point to Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Charlotte, Salt Lake City, Nashville

 

If you believe one party's politics are the sole cause of the problem, you're the problem.

 

I do think a lack of balance has hurt Cleveland. 

 

There's no doubt that 1 party rule is bad.  It just doesn't really matter which party it is.

 

This is the issue: one party control of the system. Voter education is the key. Problem is in one party cities and towns voter "education" is vote for the party or get out. New ideas and people are forced away. Mayor Jackson said as much when he said the city has to worry about it's "own" over newcomers a few years back.

Suburbs that share a school district should be first to merge.

 

 

No. More communities need to be part of Cleveland. A "super suburb" will just have more power to fight Cleveland to take away more jobs and resources---with only the self interest of the suburb and not the city or the region.

The Republican Party is an organization that is openly hostile towards cities. Take a look at their debates last year when Ted Cruz used "New York values" as an insult. The reason they don't control any cities is that they haven't invested any resources of any kind into thinking about the problems cities face in any meaningful way. It is not voters' faults or Democratic politicians' faults that there are no Republicans in cities... It's Republicans' fault that there are no Republicans in cities.

 

That being said "one party rule" isn't all it's cracked up to be and urban Dems find plenty to disagree on. In local politics turf considerations seem to matter more than ideology anyways. Ideology is set at federal and state levels, local politicians just argue on how to implement and manage.

 

I do think that "the way we've always done it" mentality is very bad in city administration, and new blood is very good, but it doesn't matter which party that new blood comes from. Perhaps if Republicans got serious about cities, they could be better positioned to provide new blood and new ideas, but unfortunately thinking about cities would alienate their base and their donors.

I realize the logistics of any merger isn't easy but from a geographical standpoint, EC, Brooklyn, Linndale, Cuyahoga/Newbergh Hts., and dare I say Lakewood and Bratenahl *should* be the first candidates of a Cleveland merger.

 

Can you predict how this proposed merger would affect the city services in Lakewood?

I realize the logistics of any merger isn't easy but from a geographical standpoint, EC, Brooklyn, Linndale, Cuyahoga/Newbergh Hts., and dare I say Lakewood and Bratenahl *should* be the first candidates of a Cleveland merger.

 

Can you predict how this proposed merger would affect the city services in Lakewood?

 

The same thing it would do to home values?

Lakewood would gain nothing from a merger. They run a great ship on their own

Lakewood would gain nothing from a merger. They run a great ship on their own

 

I wanted to give AmrapinVA a chance to sell this before I fled Lakewood for Rocky River lol.

Lakewood would gain nothing from a merger. They run a great ship on their own

 

Yes and no. The yes being that Lakewood is running fairly decent as is.

 

The no being that the entire north east Ohio region could benefit from a single or fewer municipalities looking out for just themselves. We could work regionally to make the area more attractive to outside investment and thus grow the economy and the population leading to a benefit to Lakewood and all the other suburbs currently surrounding Cleveland and losing population.

Lakewood would gain nothing from a merger. They run a great ship on their own

This is exactly the problem. People need to think about the big picture not what "benefits" them. Ultimately, it would benefit every community around Cleveland, but people seem to think short-term and in their bubble.

Lakewood would gain nothing from a merger. They run a great ship on their own

 

Lakewood would gain influence beyond its current borders and would become part of a more competitive metro.

 

Many Lakewood residents joke about giving Cleveland everything east of Bunts Rd.  Ha ha, stick em with the poors and keep the rest!  But what if instead Lakewood's wealthiest areas wanted to break off and form the Village of Lakewood Shores?  Do sharing and togetherness become more fashionable in that scenario?

Re: most of the post from today.

 

The attached article is from 4 years ago, yet it offers insight on why dem's/repub's think the way they do about cities/states.

 

Democrats Run America’s Ten Poorest Cities

4 years ago

 

I have come to believe that chain emails may one day lead to the death of our society. Chain emails alone are responsible for the creation and the success of at least one popular website, snopes.com. Chain emails (and their ugly step-sister, the forward) are the bane of every email user’s technological needs. We must make ourselves more adept with modern technology so we have to use the internet and email… which leads us to receive junk mail at a level far worse than anything the old mainstay, snail mail, used to give us. But not all chain mail/forward/junk mail is bad; in fact, there are times when these pieces of technological dross are downright informative!...........

 

http://eaglerising.com/1912/democrats-run-americas-ten-poorest-cities/

^ I am not going to explain why this is a poor analysis but anyone with a basic understanding of statistical analysis could poke a hole in it in about 5 seconds. Not to mention the actual source.

 

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/eagle-rising/

 

Extreme Right Bias - Factually questionable.

Lakewood would gain nothing from a merger. They run a great ship on their own

 

Lakewood would gain influence beyond its current borders and would become part of a more competitive metro.

 

Many Lakewood residents joke about giving Cleveland everything east of Bunts Rd.  Ha ha, stick em with the poors and keep the rest!  But what if instead Lakewood's wealthiest areas wanted to break off and form the Village of Lakewood Shores?  Do sharing and togetherness become more fashionable in that scenario?

 

If I call the cops in Lakewood they are at my house in approximately five minutes. Until Cleveland can get its act together with police response time I'd never seriously support any kind of merger. 

Right. Everyone here talks about regionalism in Cleveland until we bring out concrete examples. Then Lakewood people point to Brooklyn and say "you should merge first". Shaker people point to Garfield, etc.

 

I've got no issue with Parma merging with Cleveland. Parma PSD is a disaster, so no great shakes there. It would increase Cleveland's population by 80K and because Parma is not losing population at the rate of places like Lakewood and Shaker/Cleveland Hts. it would actually stabilize the city's population loss some more. And as mentioned up thread post-war bungalows can gentrify just like homes in OC. It's a big area to cover and Police and Fire services would be handful for the city.

 

Of course, to be 100% fair, I don't live in Parma anymore so my investment is nil but I do see the direct benefits of consolidated services where I live now.

 

Lakewood would gain nothing from a merger. They run a great ship on their own

 

Lakewood is losing population at a faster rate than Cleveland this decade. Not that great.

 

 

 

Right. Everyone here talks about regionalism in Cleveland until we bring out concrete examples. Then Lakewood people point to Brooklyn and say "you should merge first". Shaker people point to Garfield, etc.

 

I've got no issue with Parma merging with Cleveland. Parma PSD is a disaster, so no great shakes there. It would increase Cleveland's population by 80K and because Parma is not losing population at the rate of places like Lakewood and Shaker/Cleveland Hts. it would actually stabilize the city's population loss some more. And as mentioned up thread post-war bungalows can gentrify just like homes in OC. It's a big area to cover and Police and Fire services would be handful for the city.

 

Of course, to be 100% fair, I don't live in Parma anymore so my investment is nil but I do see the direct benefits of consolidated services where I live now.

 

Lakewood would gain nothing from a merger. They run a great ship on their own

 

Lakewood is losing population at a faster rate than Cleveland this decade. Not that great.

 

The housing market there would suggest otherwise. Also city services, quality of life, dining, culture and activities are all very strong.  They don't need anyone. I suspect the population loss is smaller households and less rental occupancy.

Lakewood would gain nothing from a merger. They run a great ship on their own

This is exactly the problem. People need to think about the big picture not what "benefits" them. Ultimately, it would benefit every community around Cleveland, but people seem to think short-term and in their bubble.

 

I promise you I'm not thinking within a bubble. I lived in Lakewood for 4 years and Cleveland (near west) for five years. Just doing something for the sake of your picture of things aren't realistic.  While I enjoyed both experiences tremendously, the quality of life is much higher in Lakewood.  You say it would benefit all communities, that's simply not true. Lakewood has its own identity, personality, everything that comes with that. They've earned that through planning, leadership, execution.  They would not benefit at all from a merger

Right. Everyone here talks about regionalism in Cleveland until we bring out concrete examples. Then Lakewood people point to Brooklyn and say "you should merge first". Shaker people point to Garfield, etc.

 

I've got no issue with Parma merging with Cleveland. Parma PSD is a disaster, so no great shakes there. It would increase Cleveland's population by 80K and because Parma is not losing population at the rate of places like Lakewood and Shaker/Cleveland Hts. it would actually stabilize the city's population loss some more. And as mentioned up thread post-war bungalows can gentrify just like homes in OC. It's a big area to cover and Police and Fire services would be handful for the city.

 

Of course, to be 100% fair, I don't live in Parma anymore so my investment is nil but I do see the direct benefits of consolidated services where I live now.

 

Lakewood would gain nothing from a merger. They run a great ship on their own

 

Lakewood is losing population at a faster rate than Cleveland this decade. Not that great.

 

The housing market there would suggest otherwise. Also city services, quality of life, dining, culture and activities are all very strong.  They don't need anyone. I suspect the population loss is smaller households and less rental occupancy.

 

Somehow areas in DC and the surrounding communities can have all those amenities and not lose population steadily over 50 years. But hey, it's Lakewood..they don't "need" anyone.

I'm just telling you, the market is doing very well there. People who lived in the city are looking first at Lakewood, prices have shot up. Not exactly a sign of a struggling city.

Lakewood would gain nothing from a merger. They run a great ship on their own

 

Lakewood would gain influence beyond its current borders and would become part of a more competitive metro.

 

Many Lakewood residents joke about giving Cleveland everything east of Bunts Rd.  Ha ha, stick em with the poors and keep the rest!  But what if instead Lakewood's wealthiest areas wanted to break off and form the Village of Lakewood Shores?  Do sharing and togetherness become more fashionable in that scenario?

 

If I call the cops in Lakewood they are at my house in approximately five minutes. Until Cleveland can get its act together with police response time I'd never seriously support any kind of merger. 

 

I don't want a merger either, same reasons as everyone else.  And yet I might vote for it.  A lot of the opposition on the Cleveland side is worried about the amount of control they'd lose to the absorbed suburbs.  Well, yeah.  That's part of the deal.  And voting rates in the city's distressed areas are very low.  So, it's not like the suburbs would be ceding to an occupation force.

Ironically, the thing that makes some Cleveland neighborhoods attractive (successful CDCs that function like neighborhood-level City Halls, including security, building code enforcement, redevelopment/planning, assistance to low-income households, etc.) can be applied to suburbs that merge with Cleveland so that Cleveland neighborhoods and ex-suburbs can retain a high-degree of local control. It's not a perfect solution but it could be a good starting point for discussions.

Right. Everyone here talks about regionalism in Cleveland until we bring out concrete examples. Then Lakewood people point to Brooklyn and say "you should merge first". Shaker people point to Garfield, etc.

 

I've got no issue with Parma merging with Cleveland. Parma PSD is a disaster, so no great shakes there. It would increase Cleveland's population by 80K and because Parma is not losing population at the rate of places like Lakewood and Shaker/Cleveland Hts. it would actually stabilize the city's population loss some more. And as mentioned up thread post-war bungalows can gentrify just like homes in OC. It's a big area to cover and Police and Fire services would be handful for the city.

 

Of course, to be 100% fair, I don't live in Parma anymore so my investment is nil but I do see the direct benefits of consolidated services where I live now.

 

Lakewood would gain nothing from a merger. They run a great ship on their own

 

Lakewood is losing population at a faster rate than Cleveland this decade. Not that great.

 

The housing market there would suggest otherwise. Also city services, quality of life, dining, culture and activities are all very strong.  They don't need anyone. I suspect the population loss is smaller households and less rental occupancy.

 

Somehow areas in DC and the surrounding communities can have all those amenities and not lose population steadily over 50 years. But hey, it's Lakewood..they don't "need" anyone.

 

D.C. Builds, a lot. Lakewood doesnt

True. Annexing is at best a mirage. Thriving cities and those with steady population growth do so by becoming more attractive to residents and businesses, and vice versa, not by artificially expanding borders.

Interesting fact, from 2000 to 2015 census, Lakewood declined population from ~56k to ~51k.  Approximately 3k of the 5k decrease was in the age range of 0-19 years.  Smaller households are a major player with the decrease

I did three terms as an elected councilman of my *tiny* Washington DC suburb and the big lesson I learned is partisan politics has almost nothing to do with running an efficient municipality. This is reflected in the fact that lots of municipal elections are non-partisan. Common sense and some business experience is much more valuable than a political philosophy. Even if Cleveland were 100% Democratic, there is still a big difference between styles of the incumbent mayor and TJ Dow, for example.

 

 

I did three terms as an elected councilman of my *tiny* Washington DC suburb and the big lesson I learned is partisan politics has almost nothing to do with running an efficient municipality. This is reflected in the fact that lots of municipal elections are non-partisan. Common sense and some business experience is much more valuable than a political philosophy. Even if Cleveland were 100% Democratic, there is still a big difference between styles of the incumbent mayor and TJ Dow, for example.

 

 

 

Really? In late August, the Fairfax County "non-partisan" school board just held a special election for an open seat that was held by Republican funded member. I've never seen such a partisan race in my life. On and on about transgender bathrooms from both sides but very little about overcrowding which is becoming quite the problem here and both Dems and GOP voters would agree is a real issue. It might as well have been Trump vs. Hillary. 

 

That's just one of a thousand examples of local non-partisan politics that are run in a very partisan manner.

 

Interesting fact, from 2000 to 2015 census, Lakewood declined population from ~56k to ~51k.  Approximately 3k of the 5k decrease was in the age range of 0-19 years.  Smaller households are a major player with the decrease

 

Between 2000-2010 Parma shrunk by about 3.5% yet it's 18-64 population actually grew by .5%. There was a sharp decrease in both young and old people. And Parma is not getting gentrified like Lakewood. Yes, household size plays a role but the other factor is young people with families are choosing to move away from the region in general. Even from almighty Lakewood. This is dragging the region's population down no matter how nice some 'burbs are compared to others. It's also a sign that new immigrants are not moving to region.

I did three terms as an elected councilman of my *tiny* Washington DC suburb and the big lesson I learned is partisan politics has almost nothing to do with running an efficient municipality. This is reflected in the fact that lots of municipal elections are non-partisan. Common sense and some business experience is much more valuable than a political philosophy. Even if Cleveland were 100% Democratic, there is still a big difference between styles of the incumbent mayor and TJ Dow, for example.

 

 

 

Really? In late August, the Fairfax County "non-partisan" school board just held a special election for an open seat that was held by Republican funded member. I've never seen such a partisan race in my life. On and on about transgender bathrooms from both sides but very little about overcrowding which is becoming quite the problem here and both Dems and GOP voters would agree is a real issue. It might as well have been Trump vs. Hillary. 

 

That's just one of a thousand examples of local non-partisan politics that are run in a very partisan manner.

 

Interesting fact, from 2000 to 2015 census, Lakewood declined population from ~56k to ~51k.  Approximately 3k of the 5k decrease was in the age range of 0-19 years.  Smaller households are a major player with the decrease

 

Between 2000-2010 Parma shrunk by about 3.5% yet it's 18-64 population actually grew by .5%. There was a sharp decrease in both young and old people. And Parma is not getting gentrified like Lakewood. Yes, household size plays a role but the other factor is young people with families are choosing to move away from the region in general. Even from almighty Lakewood. This is dragging the region's population down no matter how nice some 'burbs are compared to others. It's also a sign that new immigrants are not moving to region.

 

As always, just a bundle of cheer. 

 

I would point out, that municipalities like Avon, Medina, Solon, Twinsburg continue to grow and develop.  So it becomes inner ring suburbs and their amenities competing with places further out.  I would say that is the bigger threat than people relocating... Believe it or not (gulp)...people enjoy living here (shhhh)

 

 

Edit:  i know you hate cheerleading...but i have to balance out your takes.  You have an equal lack of balance in any of your arguments.  Largely though, im not naive, im well aware of our regions weaknesses...I cause havoc on twitter with our officials.

 

Really? In late August, the Fairfax County "non-partisan" school board just held a special election for an open seat that was held by Republican funded member. I've never seen such a partisan race in my life. On and on about transgender bathrooms from both sides but very little about overcrowding which is becoming quite the problem here and both Dems and GOP voters would agree is a real issue. It might as well have been Trump vs. Hillary. 

 

That's just one of a thousand examples of local non-partisan politics that are run in a very partisan manner.

 

As a municipality, we faced no such issues. I don't believe that school boards should be deciding bathroom issues either. I'd kick that up to the state level or higher. As you say, overcrowding is what they should be dealing with, and that is pretty non-partisan.

 

As an aside, my municipality passed an ordinance in 1997 to allow any resident, irrespective of citizenship, vote in local elections. We got no press coverage.  :-)

I did three terms as an elected councilman of my *tiny* Washington DC suburb and the big lesson I learned is partisan politics has almost nothing to do with running an efficient municipality. This is reflected in the fact that lots of municipal elections are non-partisan. Common sense and some business experience is much more valuable than a political philosophy. Even if Cleveland were 100% Democratic, there is still a big difference between styles of the incumbent mayor and TJ Dow, for example.

 

 

 

Republican Voinovich had a 100% Democratic council and worked well with it.  Far better than Kucinich or Campbell, arguably better than White.

^ There is a huge gap in policy ideas in Cleveland City Council even though they are all Democrats.  Would anyone really consider Polensek to be a liberal?

^ There is a huge gap in policy ideas in Cleveland City Council even though they are all Democrats.  Would anyone really consider Polensek to be a liberal?

 

The gap in policy ideas are all from middle to the extreme left though. But, I do agree, it isnt as frozen as some people think.

^Without looking it up, I'd bet few if any of Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Charlotte, Salt Lake City, or Nashville are governed by GOP mayors/majority city councils.

 

 

Houston, Nashville, Charlotte, and Salt Lake City have Democratic female mayors.

 

Dallas has a Democratic mayor.  San Antonio's office is non partisan, the incumbent is a liberal of Asian descent who replaced a black woman.

 

San Diego has a Republican mayor, also Jacksonville, Oklahoma City, Miami, and Fort Worth.

^ There is a huge gap in policy ideas in Cleveland City Council even though they are all Democrats.  Would anyone really consider Polensek to be a liberal?

 

They are Democrats because they have to be to get reelected.  Even Zack Reed seems to have said some liberal things basically just to get reelected.

True. Annexing is at best a mirage. Thriving cities and those with steady population growth do so by becoming more attractive to residents and businesses, and vice versa, not by artificially expanding borders.

 

I've said this before.    Any attempt by the City of Cleveland to involuntarily annex suburbs would be met with a disproportionate retaliation by the state government, on behalf of any suburb which feels threatened.  Meaning basically all of them.  The region as a whole would suffer.

 

The state Democratic Party would have to join in or lock itself into a permanent minority status.

 

The idea is such anathema that even discussing it poisons constructive regionalization discussions.

Here's a good article about Kenn Ricci and his almost secret, growing aviation group of companies headquartered at Cuyahoga County Airport.  Group sales are now around $2.5 billion.

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/douggollan/2017/08/24/not-netjets-directional-aviation-capital-is-a-major-player-in-private-aviation-you-may-not-know/#32177bc185cf

 

^ There is a huge gap in policy ideas in Cleveland City Council even though they are all Democrats.  Would anyone really consider Polensek to be a liberal?

 

They are Democrats because they have to be to get reelected.  Even Zack Reed seems to have said some liberal things basically just to get reelected.

 

Correct. If you talk to Reed privately, he's basically a Republicrat

Here's a good article about Kenn Ricci and his almost secret, growing aviation group of companies headquartered at Cuyahoga County Airport.  Group sales are now around $2.5 billion.

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/douggollan/2017/08/24/not-netjets-directional-aviation-capital-is-a-major-player-in-private-aviation-you-may-not-know/#32177bc185cf

 

 

There are many companies like his out there.  This is why I continue to stress that the City of Cleveland does NOTHING to promote Burke Lakefront as an economic engine.  They could be offering up the old highschool, space along the marginal or in the huge parking lots out front to build a corporate HQ and attract aviation-related businesses. 

Continued state negligence of #transit means NE #Ohio may have to find its own $$$ solutions to improve access to 1,000s of unfilled jobs. Instead, RTA is about to lose nearly 10 percent of its budget...

 

New data: #Cleveland is the #1 distressed US city, with minority communities too often bearing the weight of distress

 

America's Most and Least Distressed Cities

SARAH HOLDER  SEP 26, 2017

 

We know there’s a widening geographic economic gap in the United States, most vividly described in the months leading up to the 2016 election as a battle between the “left behind” and the “coastal elites.” Now we have new detail on how that breaks down by locality. One in six Americans are living in ZIP codes that are considered economically “distressed,” according to the Economic Innovation Group’s 2017 Distressed Communities Index. More than 84 million others—one in four—live in communities that are considered prosperous.

 

“You have at the top a really strong, booming, disproportionate amount of growth happening in elite communities,” explains John Lettieri, EIG’s senior director for policy and strategy. “And at the bottom it’s not just that the gap is getting bigger between top and bottom—it’s that they’re pulling in opposite directions.”

 

MORE:

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/09/distressed-communities/541044/

Take that Detroit!

 

Amazon Continues Growth in Ohio with Euclid Fulfillment Center

 

New facility will employ more than 1,000 associates

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)—Sept. 27, 2017-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced plans to open its fifth Ohio fulfillment center in Euclid, which will create more than 1,000 full-time positions. The company recently announced upcoming fulfillment centers in Monroe and North Randall, and it currently operates fulfillment centers in Etna and Obetz.

 

“Our growth in Ohio is the result of an outstanding workforce and incredible customers,” said Sanjay Shah, Amazon’s Vice President of North America Customer Fulfillment. “We are proud to be adding 1,000 new jobs to the more than 6,000 Amazonians already working in the state.”

 

“Amazon continues to demonstrate confidence in Ohio’s communities and people by growing throughout the state,” said JobsOhio President and Chief Investment Officer John Minor. “Amazon’s investment in Euclid will bring another new, high-tech facility and 1,000 full-time jobs to a vacant property.”

Associates at the 650,000-square-foot facility will pick, pack and ship customer items such as electronics, books, housewares and toys.

 

“We are thrilled to welcome Amazon and Seefried Industrial Properties to the City of Euclid, said City of Euclid Mayor Kirsten Holzheimer Gail. “The Euclid Square Mall site has been a prime target of our redevelopment efforts.  While some saw a vacant mall, we saw an opportunity for growth and development. This project is a fantastic addition to the investment we are seeing in our industrial corridor and will provide valuable employment opportunities for our residents. I truly appreciate the support and professionalism of Team NEO, Greater Cleveland Partnership, Cuyahoga County, the Ohio Department of Transportation, Euclid City Council and my administration for helping make this transformative project a reality.”

 

Full-time employees at Amazon receive competitive hourly wages and a comprehensive benefits package, including healthcare, 401(k) and company stock awards starting on day one.

 

“Over the last two years, we’ve been laser focused on creating jobs,” said Armond Budish, Cuyahoga County executive. “It’s very exciting to support a second Amazon distribution center, creating another 1,000 jobs for residents in the county, in addition to the 2,000 jobs at the Randall Park Mall site. These newly announced Amazon projects provide two great advantages: 3,000 new jobs and valuable repurposing of two vacant malls.”

 

Amazon also offers regular full-time employees maternity and parental leave benefits and access to innovative programs like Career Choice, where it will pre-pay up to 95 percent of tuition for courses related to in-demand fields, regardless of whether the skills are relevant to a career at Amazon. Since the program’s launch, more than 10,000 employees have pursued degrees in game design and visual communications, nursing, IT programming and radiology, to name a few.

 

“Amazon’s confidence in greater Cleveland continues,” said Joe Roman, president and CEO of the Greater Cleveland Partnership. “In the last 30 days, Amazon has committed to creating 3,000 new jobs and repurposing over 125 acres of under-utilized property. The GCP remains committed to the company’s long-term success in Northeast Ohio.”

 

To learn more about working at an Amazon fulfillment center, visit www.amazondelivers.jobs.

 

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Here's a larger national issue...how do we replace those good paying jobs my grandfather found when he moved to Cleveland 70 years ago? He was able to raise a family, buy several houses and send my father to college with a only a 6th grade education. I understand the world has changed, but we have to find a way to bring prosperity to all demographics. I see it everyday as a criminal defense attorney. Too many of my clients are economically aimless. College isn't for everyone. There needs to be other options to make a decent living.

Here's a larger national issue...how do we replace those good paying jobs my grandfather found when he moved to Cleveland 70 years ago? He was able to raise a family, buy several houses and send my father to college with a only a 6th grade education. I understand the world has changed, but we have to find a way to bring prosperity to all demographics. I see it everyday as a criminal defense attorney. Too many of my clients are economically aimless. College isn't for everyone. There needs to be other options to make a decent living.

 

Coding and computer sciences as well as sustainable energy maintenance can be the new blue collar. I truly believe that.

Amazon goes from having 0 employees in Cleveland in 2016 to 3,000+ in 2018. That has to make them a top 20 employer in the county, right?

http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20140825/FREE/140829853/list-of-cuyahoga-countys-largest-employers-proves-cleveland-is-a

 

It looks like that would place them between SW and USPS.

Here's a larger national issue...how do we replace those good paying jobs my grandfather found when he moved to Cleveland 70 years ago? He was able to raise a family, buy several houses and send my father to college with a only a 6th grade education. I understand the world has changed, but we have to find a way to bring prosperity to all demographics. I see it everyday as a criminal defense attorney. Too many of my clients are economically aimless. College isn't for everyone. There needs to be other options to make a decent living.

 

There are many opportunities out there for those who are not into or able to get into computer type jobs, or do not want to go to a 4 year college, and other types of tech collar positions.

 

With the baby boomers retiring at an ever increasing rate, shortages are already happening in the nursing filed, plumbers, construction workers, machinist, auto mechanic's, and on and on. This are the jobs for those who are of an economic aimless stage. There are plenty of companies out there who are willing to pay/educate these individuals so as to fill the jobs available, or will become available in the future. Community Colleges, special vocational training schools are out there for those who desire to make a good living at a good wage. The places that could help to guide individuals to these fields in need, and the training available are job centers, union halls, community organizations, etc..